My Parents are coming in town and crawling!!

Today I am cleaning the house and getting ready for my parents visit!! They are coming in town tomorrow sometime (not sure yet what time they will be getting here)..we are very excited though!! They will be here until December 1st..so it will be a nice long visit!
On a different note: Reesie is starting to crawl..she still does the army crawl but not has much! She is also saying Mama now..it is so cute..she has been saying Dada for awhile. She is growing up way to fast..I can't believe it!! Oh also another new thing she is doing is pulling herself up on things..she loves to hold onto our ottoman and play with her toys on it..it seems like something new everyday anymore!!

SNOWING!!

I woke up this morning to find snow on the ground and I have to say I was excited!! I love this time of year..its hard to believe that Thanksgiving is a week away and Christmas is around the corner!! I can't wait because it is Reesie's first Thanksgiving & Christmas! So at breakfast this morning I put on some Christmas music why we ate and Reese was dancing to it in her highchair it was so cute!! After breakfast I decided to get all my Christmas projects together that I need to work on. Lets just say I have a few to do (A lot!!) so I need to get cracking on them so they will be done before Christmas. Wish me luck!! :)

TOUGH TIMES!!

I can't believe how tough things are getting in the economy..I know things have been getting bad for sometime...but now its hit HOME!! This past Wednesday I was at work when I got a text from my brother saying "Dad just lost his job"...I immediately got sick to my stomach!! See.. now both of my parents have lost their jobs do to the economy...it sucks (no other word describes it)! My Mom has been without a job for about a year and half now..she has been trying like crazy to find something but is having trouble finding work..and now my Dad!! My Dad worked for MI Homes..and we were worried for him because the housing market sucks right now!! My parents moved to North Carolina because of my Dad's job..Columbus housing market started to go down about three years ago..so MI relocated my Dad to N.C...and NOW he has lost his job down there!! So I called my parents to get the full story & to see if they were ok! When my Mom answered the phone the only thing I could do was cry...so of course I made my mom cry..I asked if they were ok..and Mom said yes!! Then she put Dad on the phone and I start crying more...Dad told that everything was going to be ok..that he got a nice severance package! He said it was very hard on his boss to let him go and if things start picking up that my Dad will be the first person they call back! So lets hope that happens soon!!

Chinese,Bird Place &Crawling!!

Chinese: On Friday we were in the mood for Chinese..so we went to one of our favorite Chinese restaurants..Joey Changs. It's located in Mill Run..they have really good food at a reasonable price! Reesie had her first taste of it and love it!! She was so in ahh with our waitress...she is the same waitress we get every time we are there and what is really bad is that we don't know her name..we refer to her has "The Buckeye Lady". She loves the Buckeyes.... it is all she talks about..she is so cute!

Bird Place: On Saturday night we went to dinner with Cindy & Don and Zach (I think Mason was either with Barb or his Grandpa) we went to the "Bird Place"..for those of you that have no idea what the "Bird Place " is...it's "Red Robin". My Mom calls it that..she for got the name of it but she remembered that it is was named after a bird..so it has stuck with us and now we call it the "Bird Place." We had a really good time with the Daylong's..after dinner we all stopped at Kohl's..Cindy wanted to get new pillows..then we came back to our house and we had some of my delicious hot chocolate...I have a hot chocolate maker..I love it!! We ended up watching a movie called "Premonition"...Cindy & I liked it but I don't think the boys did (Zach was asleep in our bed for the whole movie..he has a hard staying up late)

Crawling: On Sunday we went to Brian's Parents house.. Brian was going to help his dad plant a new tree in the back yard ...it was to replace the one they lost in the wind storm. Pam & Reese and I were chilling in the living room talking about the holiday plans & gift ideas for certain people! When the guys were done with planting the tree.. they were ready for dinner..I guess they worked up an appetite. We had some beef stew that Pam had made. After dinner I was helping Pam clean up in the kitchen..Brain & Jeff and Reese were in the living room playing on the floor. All of a sudden Brian yield out "Come here and see what Reese is doing"...so we went into the living room to see what was going on...well Reese has now gone from stage one of trying to crawl to stage two " the army crawl"! She is really starting to become my BIG girl!

feeling very un-organized!!!

For those of you that don't know me very well...I am a freak about things not being organized & clean..and I am starting to feel very un-organized with my house!! We live in a very small house & we have done our best with trying to find places for our stuff... but now with Reese here it feels like the walls are caving in & the rooms are getting even smaller!! We are hoping that next year we can start looking for our own house to buy (we rent right now). But for now we have to make do with what we have! So when I start feeling this way I make a list of what I need to do in each room & then I start re-organizing..I do it by room by room! I want to try to have it all done before the Holidays..wish me luck!! I am the type of person that when I start to feel this way I can't do anything fun until things are ORGANIZED!! And I have a lot of Christmas projects... that are presents.. that I need to get done! The basement is going to be the BIGGEST organizing project of all..I am going to go through clothes & boxes and get rid of clothes that don't fit & things we don't need!! IT'S TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE :) !!!

New Chair!!

Today when I was at work..my client stopped by and dropped off this adorable little chair that her little girl used to loved to sit & play in. When I brought it home I sat Reese in it ....she loved it!! The chair sings, lights up and talks...Reese was hitting the lamp that lights up and turning the pages in the book that talked. She looks like such a BIG girl in it!!!

Spaghetti Face & Trying to Crawl......

Reese loves spaghetti ....has you can see here!!
























She is trying so hard to crawl...she is actually getting very frustrated with herself because she is not crawling yet!! We keep practicing though...it won't be long..and then we are in trouble!!

BLOG!!

OK...so I think I am getting the hang of this blog thing...I was playing around with the format and came up with this..what do you think??? If you don't already know this about me ... the whole computer thing is like a second language to me..so I was proud of myself to be able to come up with this!!

Vote for my better tomorrow!!

Well..I hope you all did your part today and ...Voted!! We went this morning all three of us... and luckily we only had to wait for about 30 minutes...thank god!! Reese helped Daddy..she loved watching Daddy press the screen...and of course she wanted to help!!

Trick or Treat SURPRISE!!!

Well we decided to go somewhere a little different this year for Trick or Treat! How does North Carolina sound!! We decided to go down and surprise my Mom & Dad this past weekend..they could use a little cheering up and we thought what a better way to do that then a visit from their little Reesie. It has been almost 3 months since we all have seen each other and I think we all needed it!!! So here is how the plan went down: My Brother was in on it and help us, he got the information we needed.. he made sure Mom wasn't working at the book store or if they were going anywhere, which they had no plans. Until we showed up!! We were going to leave around 2:00 on Friday afternoon and hoping we would get down there around 9:00.. Their Trick or Treat was from 6-8pm so we knew we wouldn't be down there by then..we did very well on time though we got down there around 8:45p. We pulled into the pool parking lot(which is right down the street from my parents house) and got Reese dressed in her costume..then we drove up to my parents and parked the car so they wouldn't be able to see it. We put Reese on her bike in front of the door and then rang the door bell and we went and hid! When my mom opened the door an saw Reese on her bike her face expression was priceless! We pulled it off!!..they had know idea we were coming! We had a great short little visit with them..we were just staying until Sunday! On Saturday we got up and mom made breakfast for all of us and then we decided to hit the mall..we did a little damage there. After the mall we went back home and got dad (he wasn't feeling so hot so he stayed home why we went to the mall) to go get dinner at one of our favorite places to eat down there "Lancaster's"..they have the best deep fried pickles!! Reesie had her first taste of a deep fried pickle and loved it! She is a true southern bell now....she loves sweet tea and now deep fried pickles!! So after dinner we ran to Target (one of other favorite places!!) we needed to pick up a few things..then we went back home. Ryan had a Halloween party to go to.. he dressed up has a "dork" (not that he needs to dress up much hahahaha!! just kidding) the rest of us watched the Texas/Texas Tech game and played with Reese. After a busy day we decided to hit the sack!! The next day we were leaving but first we had some breakfast with Mom & Dad and Ryan..then we packed the car. Before we hit the rode we needed to do a little detour to the mall... I needed to run in and exchange a couple of the shirts that we bought Reese that didn't fit.. so we followed my parents to the mall and mom & I ran in real quick. After all that we were ready to get on the rode to head home..we said our goodbyes (it wasn't that much of a tear feast because we are going to see them at Thanksgiving..they are coming up). I am so glad we made that trip...it mite have been short but it was very sweet to see them!! I miss them so much!

more pics from Chicago!!

CHICAGO!!!

Well we survived the "Windy City"!! We had such a great time...when we got to Chicago we checked into your hotel and then decided to hit Michigan Ave..that is where the shopping is!! To get downtown we decided to take the "L"... It was pretty interesting riding it!! Later on we meant Jerry's friend Amy out for dinner at the "rain forest cafe". It is such a cool place to eat with all the animals and the thunderstorm that happens every 15 minutes...its all fake of course!! The next day we decided to go back downtown and take a ferry ride and learn about all the different buildings..I have to say Chicago is a very beautiful city with all its big buildings and I think it is so neat that there is a river that runs through the city. After the tour we were all starving so we went to this pizza places called "Giordano's"("The Ellen Show" was there once when they were in town filming) the pizza was awesome!! With full belly's we decided to walk it off by shopping again but this time we went on State street... and I must say the shops that were there were definitely more in our price range. Then when we were finally shopped out it was time to go meet up with John and Benjamin (two of our friends that use to live in Columbus but now live in Chicago) we are staying with them for our remaining time in Chicago. When we got to there apartment we got settle in and then decided to go out for food and drinks!! We went to this place called "Hamburger Mary's"..they had great hamburgers and fries...they had this martini there called the "Dolly Parton" it was sooooo gooood!!! Then we went to a couple other little bars and after one to many martini's it was time to go home to bed!! The next morning you could say I wasn't feeling so hot ( not use to drinking I am a mother now...hahaha!!) So we all got ready and went to get something to eat and then we went to the Field Museum...what an awesome place that is.We saw "Sue" the largest fully put together T-Rex ever found..her skull that is on the body is just a casting the real skull is in a case that is there. The reason it is not her body is because the skull it self weighs over 600 pounds and if they would put it on the body it would topple over..we saw a lot of other interesting things too!! But then it was time to leave to go get ready for Madonna!!! I can't wait ...so we went back and got ready and then went and got something to eat...and then it was time!!! When we got there I got my program and my T-shirt and we went to our seats....then it went dark....it was time!! The concert was amazing!! She looked and sounded great!! It was probably my favorite concert of hers that I have seen!! When we got home I went right to bed I was pooped! The next day it was time to go back home...I am so excited to see Reese & Brian and the boys...I missed them a lot!!
Why I was gone Reese and Brian had a busy weekend too...Saturday night Brian went to the OSU game...it was a night game..they played Penn State. They lost but not by much. Why Brian was at the game Reese stayed with Mimi (Pam) she had a good time! The next morning Brian went over to Don & Cindy's to help put in a garage door..when he was done he went and got Reese.
When I got home we were all so excited to see each other..why I was gone Reese started doing some new babble sounds..it is so cute! We decided to go get something to eat and the go visit Vivian in the nursing home..she had surgery again on her hip. She is doing great!! Then we came home and called it a night..we were all exhausted!!